"We must have had 99% of the game. It was the other 3% that cost us the match."

"To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch."

"The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make."

"Robbie Savage also gets abuse. I actually knocked him out once with a clearance. A couple of his team-mates, who shall remain nameless, said that it was 'the best thing that had happened all season'."

"When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80000 people."

"Just hearing the name Real Madrid makes me want to vomit."

"They are all like prostitutes: they smoke, they're lazy, and they sleep all day."

"Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy."

"The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres."

"Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner."

"Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football."

"Football is simple; trainers shouldn't make it so complicated."

"The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee."

"It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0."

"Second place in the World Cup is a complete failure. It's like you're chatting with a girl and she says you are second in her affections because she prefers someone else."

"Next time I'll maybe learn to dive, but I'm not a woman."

"In his life, a man can change wifes, political parties or religions but it cannot change his favourite football team."

"The Brazilians were South America, and the Ukrainians will be more European."

"The reason we went out of Euro 2000 wasn't anything to do with what happened in the last minute against Romania."

"I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave."